Dave Pescod

Dave Pescod studied visual arts and began writing jokes for radio and television. More recently after completing a Royal Literary Fund Mentor scheme he started writing prose. He has had stories published in magazines and broadcast on Radio 4. His debut collection All Embracing and Other Stories is published by Route.

After being caught in flagrante in a library storeroom, a woman loses her job and lover and is left staring at her life inside a stale marriage, with a husband busy digging a hole in the garden in search of ruins. Story by Dave Pescod. Read by Anne Marie Hughes. Music by Jack Pescod. (13.20)

The Route Book at Bedtime (Route 22) is designed for adult bedtime reading, a book of 12 stories that aims to capture those moments of deep emotional significance which return to us in our dreams. But what is the story behind the stories? Here 11 of the authors talk about the inspiration behind the work.

Dave Pescod answers questions about his book 'All Embracing And Other Stories'
'After an hour and nearly a hundred hugs or more everybody was a bit high and nobody wanted to go home. They just stood there grinning, wanting more.'

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